Complete Rigger's Apprentice

Second Edition

The Rigger's Apprentice and The Rigger's Locker are combined in this single all-inclusive book to make you an old salt before the spray hits your sou'wester. High praise for "100 year rigging" techniques in this book are meted out in WB 235 by Bruce Halabisky about his gaff cutter Vixen.

Table of Contents:

A Rigging Primer

Running Rigging: Creating and Managing Tension

Friction, Part 1: Knotting

Friction, Part 2: Splicing

Standing Rigging Design and Materials

Loft Procedures

Installation and Maintenance

A Portfolio of Rigs

Emergency Procedures

Fancy Work

Chapter 11 - Tricks and Puzzles

Sheer Ingenuity

by Brion Toss
412 pp., hardcover